Category Archives: fantasy

HAPPY IN THE MIDDLE

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Veronica Knox

Being middle-aged or much older means we’re honorary lifetime members of the ‘middle-grade’ genre that filmmakers and authors have created especially for us. Indulge. It’s amazing. There’s no such thing as a second childhood if you never grow up! It’s … Continue reading →

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100 NAMES FOR SNOW

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Veronica Knox

Excerpt from ‘SNOW BEHIND THE DOOR’, the prequel to the ‘Bede Trilogy’, in Snow’s words: [The first beginning I remember was arriving at Bede Hall with my father on a bitterly cold, snowy English day in August of the year … Continue reading →

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FROSTY MEMORIES OF SNOW

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Veronica Knox

Preview excerpt from ‘SNOW BEHIND THE DOOR’ – the prequel to ‘the Bede Series’ [Before Kit and Ani broke into the decaying ruins of Bede Hall, they marveled at the icebound blue door encased in a thick blanket of frost. … Continue reading →

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THE ‘SENDING’

Posted on December 19, 2020 by Veronica Knox

The cat flap in Sara Goodman’s kitchen glowed green and began to rock gently, in time to the clock on the wall ticking the last few seconds to midnight. The flap swung more urgently until it froze, fully open, wide … Continue reading →

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AUTISM, SENTIENT BIRDS, and the GHOST of a PRINCIPESSA

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Veronica Knox

A MYSTICAL ROMANCE of YOUNG LOVE and OLD SOULS Delphi Sharpe, an autistic teenage orphan with the extrasensory ability to converse with birds and paintings, has a tenuous grip on reality. After she falls in love with a boy in … Continue reading →

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A RENAISSANCE TREATISE OF UNDYING LOVE

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Veronica Knox

Love survives five-hundred years of dust to rekindle the bittersweet romance between the ghost of Sandro Botticelli and a retired art history professor. As a teenager in 1967, I’d been the poster girl for romantic dreamers in love with love. … Continue reading →

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FROM BACK TO FRONT and INTO THE MIDDLE AGAIN

Posted on November 18, 2020 by Veronica Knox

‘TOMORROW AGAIN’ book three of the Bede Series middle-grade time-slip trilogy is complete, summarized here in its defining elements. BACK BLURB: My grandmother’s best friend was the ghost of my daughter whom she met sixty years before I was born. … Continue reading →

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INTRODUCING ‘TIME-SENSITIVE FICTION’

Posted on September 27, 2020 by Veronica Knox

MIDDLE-GRADE TIME SLIP ADVENTURES WRITTEN IN LITERARY PROSE FOR THE ADULT READER – an adapted genre from author V Knox If time stands still anywhere, it’s at Bede. If ghosts haunt anywhere it’s in Bede Hall Bede Hall hovers in … Continue reading →

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‘AMUSE BOUCHE’ … WORDS TO AMUSE THE MOUTH

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Veronica Knox

LISA IS A BIG GIRL… She can speak for herself! “My name, Lisabetta Buti was an affront to my existence. I was Leonardo da Vinci’s beloved kid-sister, his assistant and apprentice, and the mother he was denied. We were born … Continue reading →

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A TASTE OF INDIGO

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Veronica Knox

A STORY OF YOUNG LOVE AND OLD SOULS When the extrasensory abilities of Delphi Sharpe, an autistic girl who converses with paintings and birds, are transplanted into the circuits of an android designed to retrieve famous works of art lost … Continue reading →

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